When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.
John LubbockDo not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
John LubbockTo render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
John LubbockOur great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.
John Lubbock